16-07-2009, 12:03 PM
I need to enter some caveats before coming to the point of this post.
Back in 1977 at the tender age of 16, William Hague made a much celebrated speech to the Tory Party Conderence. I remember it vividly because, for my sins and in my then ambitious credulous naivety, I too made a speech to that conference. It was on 'defence' and, unlike the then unruly flaxen-haired Hague, I am embarrassed :embarassed: - not to say ashamed
tupido: - to recall its contents.
For reasons obvious to most members of this forum, I no longer have any truck with Mainstream Party politics but, largely because of that event, I have followed William Hague's progress quite closely. As a House of Commons Dispatch Box performer, he really is rather good and can be very entertaining indeed.
This clip is a hilarious demolition of both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair over the latter's proposed nomination for EU President (once the Irish have been made to vote the right way of course). He is a true master of humorous ridicule demolition jobs.
Enjoy
Back in 1977 at the tender age of 16, William Hague made a much celebrated speech to the Tory Party Conderence. I remember it vividly because, for my sins and in my then ambitious credulous naivety, I too made a speech to that conference. It was on 'defence' and, unlike the then unruly flaxen-haired Hague, I am embarrassed :embarassed: - not to say ashamed
tupido: - to recall its contents. For reasons obvious to most members of this forum, I no longer have any truck with Mainstream Party politics but, largely because of that event, I have followed William Hague's progress quite closely. As a House of Commons Dispatch Box performer, he really is rather good and can be very entertaining indeed.
This clip is a hilarious demolition of both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair over the latter's proposed nomination for EU President (once the Irish have been made to vote the right way of course). He is a true master of humorous ridicule demolition jobs.
Enjoy
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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